Surf and Turf: Studying Land to Help Protect Reefs
As farmland increases in Belize, more and more sediment and agricultural runoff is making its way into the country's rivers and eventually into the sea — where it reaches the Belize Barrier Reef.
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As farmland increases in Belize, more and more sediment and agricultural runoff is making its way into the country's rivers and eventually into the sea — where it reaches the Belize Barrier Reef.
From April 22 to 29th, SERVIR, the U.S. Space and Rocket Center, and the University of Alabama in Huntsville welcomed a delegation of Thai students and educators to Huntsville, Alabama for a week-long visit aimed at deepening the Discover Thailand's Astronauts Scholarship Program and U.S.-Thailand space collaborations.
Earlier this year, SERVIR welcomed two virtual interns from the University of Twente's International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation in Enschede, the Netherlands. The program, better known as ITC, is one of the world's leading geospatial education programs and is known for attracting students from around the world.
More than 50 million people in Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Laos, and Myanmar draw water for drinking and agriculture from the Mekong River.
|Jacob Ramthun, SERVIR Science Coordination Office
The Enabling Sustainable Landscape-Scale Agricultural Management through Fire and Air Quality Monitoring service guides authorities to regulate agriculture burning and manage forest fires using the Mekong Air Quality Explorer Tool.
Land Cover Monitoring for Forest Protection and Healthy Ecosystems aims to decrease greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, while supporting biodiversity conservation and augmenting water conservation.
The Invasive Species Mapper is a citizen-science smartphone app that crowdsources invasive species detection to give managers information on their current extent and spread.
The Kenya tea industry supports 10 percent of Kenya's population, around 3 million families. The industry is prone to damage by frost due to the altitudes in which it is grown.
Through a partnership between SERVIR Eastern & Southern Africa and the Kenya Ministry of Agriculture, a new satellite-based crop mapping system and sampling methodology was developed to streaml
Kenya’s Ministry of Agriculture is collaborating with USAID and NASA to use satellite tools that expand their understanding of the climate-related challenges that farmers are facing.
|Lena Pransky and Jacob Ramthun, NASA Science Coordination Office